One thing I’ve been doing as of late is volunteering with People’s Grocery. They’re a food justice organization committed to providing produce to West Oakland residence—a a district of Oakland with well-documented 55 liquor stores and no groceries. As usual, lack of access to healthy, fresh food predominantly affects low-income folks of color, and West [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘San Francisco’
October 8, 2008
Urban Gardening-Part II
Image courtesy of MyFarm
With the exciting financial times, Duck and I have been thinking about ways to both secure our own sense of safety and invest in our community. Since I’ve been feeling the food production thing, we decided to check out My Farm, which I found awhile ago poking around the web. My Farm [...]
October 8, 2008
Urban Gardening-Part I
…My garden will hopefully flourish in our backyard, a fair-sized city yard that currently sprouts crabgrass, pine needles, and the odd slug or snail.
October 7, 2008
Let No One Be Punished on my Behalf
Sh’nah tovah! It’s the head of the year for those of us Jews out there, and I just came back from a uninspired and disappointing service from my childhood congregation. A new rabbi replaced my dear one, and the service was rushed, flat, and small. But, it is a time for celebration so I’ll point [...]
October 6, 2008
Childcare for the Revolution
This weekend was Critical Resistance’s 10th anniversary conference, a convergence of folks who “seek to build an international movement to end the Prison Industrial Complex by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe.” Talented and more competent folks are blogging about the event at feministing, lambs knitting sweaters, enough enough.org, a [...]
